The stock finished the regular New York Stock Exchange session up 1.4 percent at $50.15.

HP generates more than three-fifths of its revenue internationally, and the company said sales from fast-growing emerging countries Brazil, Russia, India and China leaped 41 percent from a year earlier.

Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak also said strength in the quarter was led by the company's hardware businesses: printers, servers and PCs. Personal computer revenue in China alone nearly doubled in the quarter, she added.

"We executed very well, especially in the hardware business," Lesjak said in an interview. She said the technology upgrade cycle was beginning, and businesses are beginning to spend to upgrade aging equipment.